Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835—April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." He is also a master of short story.

一阵又一阵的忧伤掠过我心头；爱情这个奸诈的商人每售予我一小时的幸福，我得用一千小时的悲伤来偿付。

快乐、爱情、名誉、财富：它们只是伤痛、悲伤、耻辱、贫困——这些长久现实的短暂伪装。

Desolation after desolation has swept over me; for each hour of happiness the treacherous trader, Love, as sold me I have paid a thousand hours of grief.

The man considered long, then chose Love; and did not mark the...全部评论（14）去书内

The most precious water in the world are tears. Love is the most beautiful feeling in the world. Maybe because the fairy can forecast the future, she bursted out of tears for the reason that the most beautiful thing will fade away in the end.

Longer than longer,he hesitated to choose what he really want,but this time he didn't choose the exact gift.Just like human,we have many time to change our life,but we make mistakes time after time.When we found what we really need,in most cases,we have already find what we really want we are old enough,we don't have chance to choose again and enjoy the happiness.What a pity!

“Curse all the world’s gifts, for mockeries and gilded lies!...全部评论（3）去书内

After choosing pleasure, love, fame and riches, the man finally understood what he really wanted--death. He wanted to die, he wanted to rest, he wanted to find the real peace in his heart. On the way of life, there is no such thing as right or wrong, all we need to do is follow our own will and fight for it.

! Then came envy; then detraction; then calumny; then hate;...全部评论（2）去书内

To his ruin, indeed, the fool gains knowledge and fame, they destroy his bright lot and cleave his head. Many people even lose their hearts on the way of chasing fame, all they want is to gain trust, respect, money or even envy from others. Indeed, they are the kind of people who lack confident deeply and always enthusiastically want to prove themselves.

The man in the book is really lucky for being given chances again and again. There is no doubt that pleasures weigh over so many things in our life that people tend to always want it. But when we are lost in total pleasures, we may become empty and vain, followed by hollowness.

All these mentioned are temporary,they are not gifts but lendings, dangerous lendings and only pain, sorrow, and grief, shame are long lasting. If we get too immersed in the lendings of our life, we might suffer from those long lasting evils.

indeed,wealth is so necessary that no one can have a good life without it in contemporary era.but proper wealth is enough,large amount beyond demand may become burden that blind our eyes and worthen our life.